> On Jul 26, 2015, at 22:50, Mark Waite <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I'm confident Kohsuke and others don't fork unless they see it as the best 
> way to solve the problem and deliver good value to Jenkins users.  I believe 
> a fork is usually a response to a gap.
> 
> The SVNKit example is one that made Hudson (Jenkins) so compelling for me 
> from the very beginning of Hudson(Jenkins).  Hudson support for Subversion 
> worked well, whether or not the team maintaining SVNKit at that time had a 
> full or complete solution to the problem.  I think the fork was done to 
> benefit me as a user so that I could have a working, integrated, pure Java 
> subversion implementation.  I wasn't required to install or configure 
> Subversion on my Windows slave machines.  Yes, that focus on users made it 
> harder for developers later, but I think that focus on users was part of what 
> brought Jenkins to being installed on over 100 000 instances.
> 
> Since the attempt to port to the latest HTMLUnit was challenging, I suspect 
> that means there were significant gaps between what was needed for Jenkins 
> development and what HTMLUnit was providing at the time of the fork.
> 
> Mark Waite
The question is whether this changes were proposed to upstream or it was an 
attempt to save the time that ends with _more_ time consumption for other 
people.
> 
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 9:32 AM Tom Fennelly <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> I spent a while trying to replace the forked HtmlUnit with HtmlUnit 2.17 (PR 
> #1774 <https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/1774>). I've parked it for 
> now. I was just running into one issue after another.
> 
> On 26 July 2015 at 11:25, nicolas de loof <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> As long as such a hack is a way to quickly get a fix / feature while a pull 
> request is waiting for approval I'm fine with that, but when this ends with 
> svnkit-like maintenance hell I'm -1
> 
> 
> Le dim. 26 juil. 2015 12:10, Kanstantsin Shautsou <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> a écrit :
> KK likes forking libraries to add some hacks, ask him.
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, July 22, 2015 at 11:16:14 PM UTC+3, Tom Fennelly wrote:
> Anyone have an idea? I'm hoping there was a really good reason, otherwise I 
> think I might cry.
> 
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